The MIT Maritime Consortium released a safety handbook for nuclear-powered ships on October 20, 2025, a move that arrives as the shipping industry wrestles with how to decarbonize vessels large enough ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

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A novel type of nuclear power plant in Wyoming backed by Bill Gates became the first new U.S. commercial reactor in nearly a decade to receive clearance to build.

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade.

ANN ARBOR—A thousand times faster than conventional testing, an ion beam approach to qualifying materials for use in the cores of advanced nuclear reactors is advancing through stages of approval by ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is U.S. potential to ...

February 15, 2026 was a historic day for the United States military and the future of nuclear reactors in the United States. That's the day United States Air Force personnel and civilian contractors ...

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

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This article first appeared on The Texas Tribune on February 17, 2026. (Texas Tribune) — Less than three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced the creation of the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor ...